MAL-2026-14214

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/sysc1/MAL-2026-14214.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-14214
Published
2026-08-19T02:51:01Z
Modified
2026-08-19T03:00:14.414679667Z
Summary
Malicious code in sysc1 (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (2246c45afa73830233fa107ca0b97d96b10b59169599d248f7327d4e5317ff9f)

Package declares itself a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships a coordinated surveillance payload. package.json main is index.js which invokes startApp() at top level; on require or npm start, index.js silently installs Python (via winget or a fetch of python-3.12.3-amd64.exe run with /quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1), pip-installs keyboard, pyautogui, mss, uiautomation, and pywin32, then spawns the bundled pointer.py. pointer.py creates a topmost transparent overrideredirect Tk overlay (alpha 0.75) with multiple stealth hide/show/panic-exit global hotkeys, captures screenshots via ImageGrab/mss, reads the clipboard, and walks the UI trees of other running applications (including a documented 'CHROME BYPASS' that increases uiautomation WalkControl depth to scrape text out of Chrome). The captured screen contents, clipboard data, and text harvested from unrelated applications are POSTed with requests.Session to the hardcoded author-controlled endpoint https://new-pointer.vercel.app/api. The advertised package purpose is inconsistent with the shipped behavior; the stealth overlay, global hotkeys, cross-application UI scraping, silent Python bootstrap, and hardcoded exfiltration endpoint together form an on-load surveillance dropper.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "import_time": "2026-08-19T02:57:23.214253259Z",
            "sha256": "10a1bd2fc9346795fad18a8ea925bc9e04c696a7777bdc6e71fefc9836bc948a",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-19T02:51:17Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-018311",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "import_time": "2026-08-19T02:57:22.989414326Z",
            "sha256": "2246c45afa73830233fa107ca0b97d96b10b59169599d248f7327d4e5317ff9f",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-19T02:51:01Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-018309",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / sysc1

Package

Name
sysc1
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Purl
pkg:npm/sysc1

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/sysc1/MAL-2026-14214.json"
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "a2af7a8f9e16060519c4d2d1882f7d98cab4fcac9cb50ff7e4ac74016a234864",
            "path": "pointer.py",
            "tlsh": "8ee20b05ec0d0896c473de2e5852b867ff1a0b435a1e9e17f8bc99901f743468ae4ef9"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f87cf6bbb82769c91094a843604d729e4e9900f6d7a94fb65088062a66868801",
            "tlsh": "91b01209d82fcc64849ac1b612b04514c7975c5150228825076085c853850f05724362",
            "path": "start_tool.vbs"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "6044ff1e5d1929c7e31b6e77a4c000ae9400229fbd5733821f88fd2bad8f4cea",
            "tlsh": "de8150075a95a234ed7247a99b07212be517a073b100e69cbcbe83840f76945c073fee",
            "path": "index.js"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "sysc1-1.0.1.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "7a265f85aab1a12dd216a9278b4449f15f082844",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-IDSRpwNOF5YpmntRrSdhCI3s5u7Zq8ylClgtGbwdZfguG07cNUgO2Kn6bco3oJXV3UFC5danzAmHivYgNe6s4A=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."
    },
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    }
]